Played quite a bit in college for quarters but my poker home game has started playing hearts when only 4 people show up. We play a 100 point game, winner takes all. The losers have to pay $1 per point delta to the winner. Sound reasonable? How else is hearts played for money? A buy in with structured pay out?

> Any of you guys play the card game hearts for money? > > Played quite a bit in college for quarters but my poker home game has > started playing hearts when only 4 people show up. We play a 100 point > game, winner takes all. The losers have to pay $1 per point delta to the > winner. Sound reasonable? How else is hearts played for money? A buy in > with structured pay out?

Back in 95-96 a group of us played all day long at work using the MS Hearts that worked over the network. We'd just pitch in $1 a game winner take all.

"Porsche_Dan" <porsche.dan@gmail.com > wrote in message news:g5vg46xh3s.ln2@recgroups.com... > Any of you guys play the card game hearts for money? > > Played quite a bit in college for quarters but my poker home game has > started playing hearts when only 4 people show up. We play a 100 point > game, winner takes all. The losers have to pay $1 per point delta to the > winner. Sound reasonable? How else is hearts played for money? A buy in > with structured pay out?

I love hearts. A condition per point to the winner is standard. I don't know any other way to play it for money.

Tad "Try Fantan Sometime" Perry

Fantan rules - Three or four players. (For three players remove a king.) Deal out 13 cards to each player. (17 for three players) Each player antes a condition to the pot. Play starts left of dealer and rotates clockwise. Left of dealer must play a seven on the open board, or pass. No penalty for passing on the first round. Subsequent players must play a seven or a card adjacent to a card already played and of the same suit. (I.e. once a seven of spades is played, you can play a 6 of spades or 8 of spades on it.) If the player has a play, he MUST play it, or there he owes a penalty of 5 conditions to the pot if caught holding out later. If the player has no play, he must pass and pay the pot 1 condition. The first player to go out (play all his cards) wins. All other players add one condition to the pot for each card they still hold. (I.e. a player holding five cards pays five to the winner.)

Very fun. There is fairly complex strategy regarding holding onto blocking cards that will force opponents to pass (and pay) over and over.

> Any of you guys play the card game hearts for money? > > Played quite a bit in college for quarters but my poker home game has > started playing hearts when only 4 people show up. We play a 100 point > game, winner takes all. The losers have to pay $1 per point delta to the > winner. Sound reasonable? How else is hearts played for money? A buy in > with structured pay out? > > > > 60.250.189.211

> Any of you guys play the card game hearts for money? > > Played quite a bit in college for quarters but my poker home game has > started playing hearts when only 4 people show up. We play a 100 point > game, winner takes all. The losers have to pay $1 per point delta to the > winner. Sound reasonable? How else is hearts played for money? A buy in > with structured pay out?

There is a ton more strategy when "everyone pays everyone". Forces people to try to run em ..etc etc !! > > > > 60.250.189.211

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire

On Jan 20, 8:34=A0am, Will in New Haven <bill.re...@taylorandfrancis.com > wrote: > On Jan 20, 10:32=A0am, "FangBanger" <a29b...@webnntp.invalid> wrote: > > > On Jan 20 2009 7:11 AM, Porsche_Dan wrote: > > > > Any of you guys play the card game hearts for money? > > > > Played quite a bit in college for quarters but my poker home game has > > > started playing hearts when only 4 people show up. We play a 100 poin= t > > > game, winner takes all. The losers have to pay $1 per point delta to = the > > > winner. Sound reasonable? How else is hearts played for money? A buy = in > > > with structured pay out? > > > There is a ton more strategy when "everyone pays everyone". Forces peop= le > > to try to run em ..etc etc !! > > The strategy in Hearts, other than heads up, becomes "who do I collude > with" or "are they colluding against me?" once the money becomes other > than trivial. I never lcheat and I never could _stand_ being cheated, > so I only played for trivial amounts. And people still cheated, > including a college chaplain. People cheat at bridge with no money > involved. Games where you are only supposed to give limited > information to your partner and that via methods that are open to the > opponents, are very open to cheating. Cut-throat Hearts, where you > aren't supposed to have a partner, is very open to secret partnerships > and everyone cheating one guy.

I have a friend who made some money playing partnership hearts in the military many years ago. He hooked up with the only other bridge player in the unit and they played count signals.

- Bob T. > > -- > Will in New Haven

Date: 20 Jan 2009 08:34:38
From: Will in New Haven
Subject: Re: Playing Hearts for Money

On Jan 20, 10:32=A0am, "FangBanger" <a29b...@webnntp.invalid > wrote: > On Jan 20 2009 7:11 AM, Porsche_Dan wrote: > > > Any of you guys play the card game hearts for money? > > > Played quite a bit in college for quarters but my poker home game has > > started playing hearts when only 4 people show up. We play a 100 point > > game, winner takes all. The losers have to pay $1 per point delta to th= e > > winner. Sound reasonable? How else is hearts played for money? A buy in > > with structured pay out? > > There is a ton more strategy when "everyone pays everyone". Forces people > to try to run em ..etc etc !! >

The strategy in Hearts, other than heads up, becomes "who do I collude with" or "are they colluding against me?" once the money becomes other than trivial. I never lcheat and I never could _stand_ being cheated, so I only played for trivial amounts. And people still cheated, including a college chaplain. People cheat at bridge with no money involved. Games where you are only supposed to give limited information to your partner and that via methods that are open to the opponents, are very open to cheating. Cut-throat Hearts, where you aren't supposed to have a partner, is very open to secret partnerships and everyone cheating one guy.

On Jan 20, 5:11=A0am, "Porsche_Dan" <porsche....@gmail.com > wrote: > Any of you guys play the card game hearts for money? > > Played quite a bit in college for quarters but my poker home game has > started playing hearts when only 4 people show up. We play a 100 point > game, winner takes all. The losers have to pay $1 per point delta to the > winner. Sound reasonable? How else is hearts played for money? A buy in > with structured pay out?

P.S. Back in the day, we did not play winner takes all, we played that everybody pays everbody. That way, if the four scores are 105, 90, 45 and 40, the guy with 45 points will also make a profit, and the two high scores will pay more.

> On Jan 20, 5:11 am, "Porsche_Dan" <porsche....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Any of you guys play the card game hearts for money? > > > > Played quite a bit in college for quarters but my poker home game has > > started playing hearts when only 4 people show up. We play a 100 point > > game, winner takes all. The losers have to pay $1 per point delta to the > > winner. Sound reasonable? How else is hearts played for money? A buy in > > with structured pay out? > > P.S. Back in the day, we did not play winner takes all, we played that > everybody pays everbody. That way, if the four scores are 105, 90, 45 > and 40, the guy with 45 points will also make a profit, and the two > high scores will pay more. >

That's the way we played the shipboard hearts games when I was in the Navy.

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On Jan 20, 5:56=A0am, "Porsche_Dan" <porsche....@gmail.com > wrote: > On Jan 20 2009 5:26 AM, Bob T. wrote: > > > On Jan 20, 5:11=A0am, "Porsche_Dan" <porsche....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Any of you guys play the card game hearts for money? > > > > Played quite a bit in college for quarters but my poker home game has > > > started playing hearts when only 4 people show up. We play a 100 poin= t > > > game, winner takes all. The losers have to pay $1 per point delta to = the > > > winner. Sound reasonable? How else is hearts played for money? A buy = in > > > with structured pay out? > > > P.S. Back in the day, we did not play winner takes all, we played that > > everybody pays everbody. =A0That way, if the four scores are 105, 90, 4= 5 > > and 40, the guy with 45 points will also make a profit, and the two > > high scores will pay more. > > That makes sens, thank you. Alcohol helps as well!

> On Jan 20, 5:11 am, "Porsche_Dan" <porsche....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Any of you guys play the card game hearts for money? > > > > Played quite a bit in college for quarters but my poker home game has > > started playing hearts when only 4 people show up. We play a 100 point > > game, winner takes all. The losers have to pay $1 per point delta to the > > winner. Sound reasonable? How else is hearts played for money? A buy in > > with structured pay out? > > P.S. Back in the day, we did not play winner takes all, we played that > everybody pays everbody. That way, if the four scores are 105, 90, 45 > and 40, the guy with 45 points will also make a profit, and the two > high scores will pay more.

On Jan 20, 5:11=A0am, "Porsche_Dan" <porsche....@gmail.com > wrote: > Any of you guys play the card game hearts for money? > > Played quite a bit in college for quarters but my poker home game has > started playing hearts when only 4 people show up. We play a 100 point > game, winner takes all. The losers have to pay $1 per point delta to the > winner. Sound reasonable? How else is hearts played for money? A buy in > with structured pay out?

In my experience, hearts for money is normally played in the high school library, or in the basement of Todd's house. Of course, my experience is thirty-five years out of date...